Eliot Weinberger 1/15/03 - New York: Sixteen Months After

Eliot Weinberger 1/15/03 - New York: Sixteen Months After: "Perhaps the problem is that there are no words to describe this Administration. All the pejoratives, however accurate, that might be applied-- 'warmongers' and 'imperialists,' 'corrupt' and 'bloodthirsty,' 'fanatical' and 'criminal'—have been drained of their meaning by decades of propaganda. They are as banal as the rhetoric of the think tanks. Small wonder that American writers have generally been either silent or bathetic ('9/11 reminded me of the day my father died') on all that has happened in the last two years. We no longer have the words to even think about what is happening, about violence that is not 'just like a movie,' about people like Cheney and Rumsfeld and Perle and Wolfowitz and Rice and Ashcroft and Bush, who are not Pol Pot or Stalin or Hitler, who are lesser forms of evil, but evil nonetheless. To begin to talk about them is to relive the old nightmare of the scream with no sound."

What Is Happening in America? by Eliot Weinberger Vorwarts, June 1, 2003 (a publication of the German Social Democratic Party)

What Is Happening in America? by Eliot Weinberger Vorwarts, June 1, 2003 (a publication of the German Social Democratic Party): "This is, quite simply, the most frightening American administration in modern times, one that is appalling both to the left and to traditional conservatives. This junta is unabashed in its imperialist ambitions; it is enacting an Orwellian state of Perpetual War; it is dismantling, or attempting to dismantle, some of the most fundamental tenets of American democracy; it is acting without opposition within the government, and is operating so quickly on so many fronts that it has overwhelmed and exhausted any popular opposition.
Perhaps it cannot be stopped, but the first step toward slowing it down is the recognition that this is an American government unlike any other in this country's history, and one for whom democracy is an obstacle."

Christian Message Boards: Militant Vegetarianism

Christian Message Boards: Militant Vegetarianism: "
At a dinner recently a militant vegetarian asked me, 'Are you enjoying that dead cow?' I looked across and said, 'I am a vegetarian.' They recoiled and exclaimed, 'You are not!' 'Yes, I am,' I insisted. 'I only eat herbivores.'"

WVEC.com | News for Hampton Roads, Virginia | Virginia News

"'To imply that we're flattening Appalachia is so untrue,' Caylor says. 'We're creating level land for Appalachia.'"

Plan: We Win - New York Times

Plan: We Win - New York Times: "A president who seems less in touch with reality than Richard Nixon needs to get out more."